EZ UPDATES

For readers of the EZ 66 Guide for Travelers, I have provided free online updates to help keep your Route 66 experience as current as possible. As you might imagine, Route 66 is constantly undergoing changes, some good, others not so. Businesses open and close, roads are re-routed and street names change.

Please check back here just before your trip for the latest info. Entries are dated as to when they were added.

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EZ 66 readers have been helpful in keeping me keep the guidebook updated in between my own road trips, so if you discover something that needs to be addressed while on your journey, please let me know!

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No Tresspassing! on Jun 19, 2011 at 6:24:11 pm [Print]
A recent guestbook entry points out the need to avoid tresspassing on private property along 66 (or anywhere) Laws may vary by state, but if there's a fence, don't cross it! These people did not cross the fence, but were still warned by a Sherrif against tresspassing. Legally you should be able to take photos from public right of way, but I wouldn't argue with a law officer.

MO page-18 on Mar 16, 2011 at 5:19:30 pm [Print]
I was just told that Britt's Grill (the former Wrinks) is now closed.

Also, the nearby Bell Restaurant is closed as well.

IL page-26 on Mar 11, 2011 at 3:20:01 pm [Print]
High winds have recently demolished the Meramec Caverns barn. Only part of the message To quote a report: "The U.S. 66 MO part of the sign at the bottom remains. All above it is kindling."

The barn is now totally gone.

OK page-25 on Mar 03, 2011 at 11:18:56 pm [Print]
The Rte 66 Soda Fountain in Hydro is reported to be closed. There is a great old fashioned barbershop downtown, though.

OK page-11 on Mar 03, 2011 at 11:04:29 pm [Print]
Former tenants of the Warehouse Market Building, at the Elgin Street intersection, Tulsa Treasures (gifts and collectibles) and Lyons Indian Store, which boasts a selection of Indian goods, have moved to 111 S Detroit, in the Blue Dome District.

IL page-10 on Feb 05, 2011 at 8:36:09 pm [Print]
Just found out that Smatterjak's in Dwight has been closed for a few years...must have done so about the same time as the 2nd edition came out...and no one has told me!

The good news is that there is a great restaurant in Dwight: OLD ROUTE 66 FAMILY RESTAURANT: located at 105 S. OLD 66, DWIGHT, IL 60420, PHONE 1-815-584-2920.

No less an authority as Illinois' John Weiss told me: "This is one of the finest, cleanest restaurants on 66. And the food is superb. It has a great 66 theme inside and out. The staff are the type you hope to find in a Route 66 restaurant. "


TX page-15 on Jan 10, 2011 at 9:29:48 pm [Print]
I just had a somewhat unfavorable report on the Best Western in Vega. The complaint was of lots of flies (living and dead) and a couple of beetles in the room.

So I would suggest checking out the room in person before comitting.

NOTE: the old Vega Motel is now a strip mall of sorts.

AZ page-19 on Nov 04, 2010 at 6:33:38 pm [Print]
The Calvary Baptist Institute west of Seligman has evidently closed, and the bldg is vacant.

Shoe trees on Nov 04, 2010 at 6:31:25 pm [Print]
In case I did not mention it below, I just want to remind you that the original Shoe Tree east of Stroud, OK has yielded to gravity, and is no longer standing! But a new one has been started.

On my April trip to CA I noticed that the TWO shoe trees east of Amboy have both lost their upper branches (now they look more like shoe bushes) but there are still plenty of footwear and other stuff hanging on.

One wonders if the weight and wind resistance of the shoes have an unfortunate effect upontrees?


OK page-21 on Oct 05, 2010 at 2:49:05 pm [Print]
The 66 Bowl sign has been auctioned off (the building will become a grocery) so its goodbye to a GIANT ALERT. The new owners of the sign hope to restore it and get it a goood home somewhere along the route.